TRAGEDY: Insurgents Kill 19, Injures 143 people

A man wears a placard on his back, requesting to be trained and sent to the frontline to fight against Boko Haram

A double suicide bombing has killed 19 people and wounded 143  in northern Cameroon, where soldiers are battling Boko Haram fighters.

The attacks targeted Kerawa, a town in the Far North region that was the scene of clashes between the militants and government soldiers in February. One blast hit a camp housing infantry fighting the Islamists, while another was at a market.

A local government official said he had been told the attacks were carried out by female suicide bombers. Boko Haram has stepped up attacks on Chad, Niger and Cameroon, all of which border its northeast Nigerian stronghold, after they took part in an offensive against it this year. May God safe Africa from this deadly sect.